Language Variety at the Dutch Language Instute Tanneke Schoonheim www.ivdnt.org Senior researcher / linguist The Dutch Language Instute • central posi-on in the Dutch-speaking world • widely accessible scholarly ins-tute in the field of the Dutch language • developer, keeper and distributor of corpora, lexica, dic-onaries and grammars (CLARIN center) 2 Language Variety • between the various Dutch-speaking countries • within the various Dutch-speaking countries 3 The European area • Belgium Flanders • The Netherlands 4 The South American area • Surinam • Dutch Caribbean • Aruba • Curaçao • St. Maarten 5 Dutch Language Union • supports the Dutch language at home and around the world • s-mulates people and parts of society to use Dutch in the most effec-ve and efficient way possible • develops language policies and services 6 Instute vs. Union Dutch Language Ins-tute: • develops and/or hosts language materials for research and educaon Dutch Language Union: • uses the language materials of the ins-tute to facilitate the exchange of knowledge of Dutch in the world 7 Language materials • historical dic-onaries of Dutch • contemporary dic-onaries of Dutch • a wordlist for spelling purposes • a series of bilingual dic-onaries • a portal on the grammar of Dutch • terminology lists and databases 8 Language Variety between the Dutch- speaking countries • Influence of English: the Netherlands, Surinam, Belgium • Influence of French: Belgium • Influence of Papiamento: Dutch Caribbean • Influence of indigenous languages: Surinam 9 Loanwords: Dutch inflec2on (present) (past) 1 sg upload uploadde 2 sg uploadt uploadde 3 sg uploadt uploadde 1, 2, 3 pl uploaden uploadden infinive uploaden past par-ciple geüpload present par-ciple uploadend 10 Loanwords: Dutch context • Google biedt grootgebruikers van opslag de mogelijkheid om harde schijven op te sturen. Het bedrijf uploadt die dan naar de cloudopslag van Google. • Vaak is voor het uploaden een username en een password vereist. • Wanneer u een bestand probeert te sluiten terwijl dit wordt geüpload, wordt er een dialoogvenster weergegeven met de voortgang van de upload. 11 Loanwords: Dutch compounds and derivaons • Door de toenemende vraag naar data, snelheid én uploadcapaciteit zijn er een aantal ontwikkelingen in kabelland. • De uploadsnelheid is de snelheid waarmee een op een computernetwerk aangesloten apparaat data naar het netwerk kan sturen. • Wij kunnen jouw (bedrijfs)presentae door middel van een data-upload op de USB sck zefen. 12 Language Variety between Dutch- speaking countries: projects • Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal • Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 13 Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal Online: www.woordenlijst.org ca. 190.000 Dutch words and paradigms Paper edi-on: ‘Groene Boekje’ ca. 52.000 Dutch words and paradigms • 5.000 most frequent words of Dutch • 47.000 most frequent words from logfiles 14 Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal Focus on: • correct spelling • reliability for users Less important: • geographical informaon 15 Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal Corpus: newspaper and web material • Belgium and the Netherlands: huge amount of data • Surinam and Dutch Caribbean: far less corpus data 16 Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal Subcorpora per country • Surinam 2500 words • Dutch Caribbean: 400 words 17 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek • contemporary Dutch • 75.000 entries and growing by the day • corpus-based • hfp://anw.ivdnt.org 18 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 19 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 20 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 21 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 22 Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek 23 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries Dic-onary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD) Portal for dialect dic-onaries • Flemish • Braban-c • Limburgian • ….. (to be expanded later) 24 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries 25 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries 26 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries 27 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries • Pilot on animal names Dataset 524 concepts 13th century Dutch: 790 entries Flemish: 173 entries 2694 keywords 28 Language Variety within the Dutch speaking countries Dutch dialect kiekendief ‘harrier’ bruwier wouw ‘kite’ bruwier valk ‘falcon’ bruwier ? 29 Conclusion The Dutch Language Ins-tute pays aen-on to all variants of Dutch, both between the countries that are part of the Dutch Language Union and within their borders. Current projects are: • Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal • Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek • Dic-onary of the Southern Dutch Dialects 30 Conclusion Future projects will build on these projects, collec-ng and describing new data, linking this data to the exis-ng datasets, and preparing the data for the various groups of intended users, thus providing a solid basis and environment for many kinds of contemporary and historical linguis-c research and an easily accessible plaorm for linguis-c knowledge to be used by language users of the en-re Dutch speaking community as well. 31 Thank you! Tanneke Schoonheim www.ivdnt.org Senior researcher / linguist .